香蕉爸爸與葡萄媽媽

The fantastic view on the top of Mountain Wuwowei.

＜＜ Introduction＞＞

"The Seven Heroes of Guguan" are well-known as some mid-level mountains in the central part of Taiwan which range from 1,305m to 2,366m above sea level.

The altitude of Mountain Wuwowei is 1,796m, makes it the third tallest one among all of seven. There're two trail entrances which people can start their hike：the north trailhead is at around 31.2K of Dasyueshan Forest Road, and to reach the south trailhead, you have to walk through the Shi-wen Lane in the back of Li-Yang Camping Site.

Mount Wuwowei is claasified as level 3 in our Trail Difficulty Level, it's a trail between easy and moderate level and can be done within a day, especially suitable for climbers who usually go hiking.

Date：Feburary 22nd, 2020 / Saturday
Weather：Sunny 
Members：Liao, Ru, De, little beauty

One of my friend is new in the nature, as a result I chose to go on an easier way to reach the peak which was to begin from the north trailhead. We drove quite a long way from Miaoli to Taichung, finally arrived the Wuwowei trail entrance at Dasyueshan Forest Road. We found another replaceable path which is 50m away because the original one has been under repairment.
There's a small parking lot just beside the trail entrance, or you can just pull over to the side of the road.

The altitude of trailhead from Dasyueshan road is 1,993m which is higher than the summit mark of Mountain Wuwowei, the drop height is only 197m, and the total walking distance is  2.3km. It's a mild slope in initial and you can see it's an easy and relaxing forest path also suitable for a family to do an one-day outdoor trip.
It was lovely weather, we walked in the miscellaneous forest under the shadow of tree leaves mostly of the time. My little beauty ran to her heart's content in the wild, I could imagine how delightful she was.

I would particularly mention there was a quite steep section in the beginning of the trail comparable to the rest, we had to pay fully attention to our next step, used both upper and lower limbs to walk down at the same time. I especially prefer this type of mountain paths beacuse it's much more challenging and interesting, on the other hand, I like that moment when concentrating on a thing without any distrubance.
We only needed to follow our own paces, focused on our own breath everytime in nature, and nothing at all. Sometimes we could look up to the sky, found it was cover by trees towering into clouds, at the other time we might found out being surrounded by greens.
 

There're several types of froests along the trail, inclusive of broadleaf and conifer mixed forests, dense taiwan rhododendron forests and taiwan red pine forests, et cetera. Each of them has formed its own unique ecoregion.
Everytime I'm able to immerse myself in nature, I'd always love to close my eyes, gently touch tree trunks from the depth of my heart. It makes me feel like being embraced by her wholeheartedly and getting peace of mind gradually through this simple but significant skin contact.

If you have regular physical training as your daily routine, it's easy peasy, lemon squeezy. We weren't in a rush, so we walked slowly on the way to the summit. There were some people already having their lunches by the time we reached the peak. My little beauty is affectionate to eveyone and she likes being socialized, as a result she met some new friends there, absolutely got something yummy from them as well.
We were blessed to enjoy a mountanious view through the hole in the foliage specifically on sunny days, and then we headed back instead of staying too long on the triagulation point while there were more and more people coming up here.

On our way back to the Dasyueshan trailhead, we also visited Wuwowei north peak, it only took us less than 10 minutes to accomplish it. There was nothing except wood around the triagulation point, you may decide to do it or not on second thought.

Little beauty were full of beans and running in forests all day even when we were about to finish our hiking, and not to our surprise, she kept her energetic style all the way to home.
I'm always saying jokingly that Little beauty is the most mentally unrestrained dog in this world, and I believe she actually is.
I am that kind of person who likes to be alone, because there's no need to hide who I really am, but sometimes I enjoy hanging out with friends since human beings are unavoidably social animals. However, I realize that I can possess freedom and friendships or something like striking the balance bewteen both of them in the nature, that's exactly what makes it worthwhile.

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For more further informations which are in detail, please check:
(1)TAIWAN FOREST RECREATION-Mt. Wuwowei Trail
(2)The seven heroes of Guguan